Eclipse Series 47: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: Early Shorts and Features: Experience (1973)

KIAROSTAMI, Abbas (Iran)

Experience [1973]
Eclipse Series 47
Blu-ray

Based on a story by Amir Naderi, who also cowrote the film, this slice of a fourteen-year-old boy’s life follows his efforts to fend for himself in the big city, working as a tea server and assistant in a photographer’s studio, running errands, and, briefly, exchanging glances with a pretty middle-class girl. With no music and little dialogue, and distinguished by its darkly elegant compositions, the film offers an impressionistic meditation on adolescent solitude.

56 minutes
Black & White

Monaural

in Persian

1:85:1 aspect ratio

Criterion Release 2025

Directors/Writers

Abbas Kiarostami was 33 when he directed Experience.

Screenplay by Amir Naderi and Kiarostami.

Story by Naderi.

Other Kiarostami films in the Collection:

Eclipse Series 47: Bread and Alley (1970)
Eclipse Series 47: Breaktime (1972)

Eclipse Series 47: The Traveler (1974)

Eclipse Series 47: Two Solutions for One Problem (1975)

Eclipse Series 47: So Can I (1975)

Eclipse Series 47: Colors (1976)

Eclipse Series 47: A Wedding Suit (1976)

Eclipse Series 47: Tribute to Teachers (1977)

Eclipse Series 47: Solution No. 1 (1978)

Eclipse Series 47: First Case, Second Case (1979)

Eclipse Series 47: Toothache (1980)

Eclipse Series 47: Orderly or Disorderly (1981)

Eclipse Series 47: The Chorus (1982)

Eclipse Series 47: Fellow Citizen (1983)

Eclipse Series 47: First Graders (1984)

#990: Where is the Friend's House? (1987)

Eclipse Series 47: Homework (1989)

#519: Close-up (1990)

#991: And Life Goes On (1992)

#992: Through the Olive Trees (1994)

#45: Taste of Cherry (1997)

#1261: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

#612: Certified Copy (2010)

#708: Like Someone in Love (2012}

#956: 24 Frames (2017)

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